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The New Zealand government has a plan to keep increasing tobacco taxes

(Earlier this year, Altria raised its cigarette prices by 14 cents per pack, after hiking them by 13 cents last November)

Erfan Tasdighi, co-author of the study and internal medicine physician at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, told ABC News

What you use to make that designation is really important and shouldnt just be brushed over. She and her team are proposing that highly rewarding and ultra-processed foods many laden with sky-high amounts of sugar, salt and fat be classified as addictive substances in various diagnostic frameworks

Substances causing an increase in dopamine levels, like nicotine and opioids, also act to increase pleasure and generate signals forcibly